RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Word Is Out

By last week Russia and Japan were talking back & forth about a war as
if such a conflict were as certain to come as this year's U. S.
baseball season. Each side piously insisted that it would not start it
but neither convincingly dissembled its itch for a "defensive fight."

War talk reached a new high in Moscow fortnight ago when Dictator Stalin
told the 17th Russian Communist Party Congress: "Those who attack us
will get such a decisive blow that they will learn to keep their
swinish snouts out of our potato...